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Apple watch keyboard developer put off by app store scammers
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#152FYI, in situations like this the best way is to: 1. Register your videos and images with the USCO. It'll cost 2. You can now file DMCA takedowns. Send one to Apple with the USCO registration ID and a copy of the image and a link to the app in question. 3. Apple will either immediately remove that fake app, or be liable for up to $350k in punitive damages for wilful infringement and lose all DMCA protection. 4. If App…
Can I register with USCO if I am not from the US?
Yes. But you might have to pay extra for them to snail-mail you the certificate.
There are also services that'll do everything for you and you just get a PDF when it's done. Usually costs about $50 in addition to the USCO filing fees.
Re: Apple watch keyboard developer put off by app store scammers
#153FYI, in situations like this the best way is to: 1. Register your videos and images with the USCO. It'll cost 2. You can now file DMCA takedowns. Send one to Apple with the USCO registration ID and a copy of the image and a link to the app in question. 3. Apple will either immediately remove that fake app, or be liable for up to $350k in punitive damages for wilful infringement and lose all DMCA protection. 4. If App…
None of this works if you're not American.
It does :)
Even as a "nonresident alien" (meaning foreigner) you can use the USCO website and send DMCA takedowns.
But of course, it only works if you send the DMCA to a company that needs to adhere to US law. So it'll work to get Apple or Google to remove the infringing app, but you probably cannot use DMCA to directly pursue the infringers.
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#154Apple seems to be far more concerned with getting their (30/15) percent cut than with how that revenue was generated. The App Store is full of such examples. As long as you pay the baron his share and don’t upset him with unwelcome thoughts (Parler) or worldly desires (erotica), you are free to reign.
The only way scams like this can be stopped is if Apple review downloads and opens apps after they’ve been approved and placed on the store.
And even that is problematic, fo you think these scam screens appear for users in Cupertino?
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#155Lol they having million of reviews rating on app which cost 400$ a year which is $$$ for Apple (they get 30% of that). But Apple wont pay someone for looking through these apps and assure the app at least do something similar to what is advertised.
I guarantee this app went through review and that none of the scam screens appeared then.
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#156What is the worst those scammers have to fear? Having their app banned from the App store? If so, this sounds like a very unethical, but amost risk free business model.
You don’t get paid for nearly 60 days so if someone reports you all the work you did for your scamming is for naught.
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#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, and that's where/why the whole "service provider" thing can get interesting. In this case Apple just hands your DMCA notice to the alleged infringer.
Apple is hosting user created content though (in the form of apps). Don't they become liable for that hosting if they don't handle the DMCA request themselves?
Yes, in this case Apple would be the recipient. And even though they did not create the infringing app, the DMCA take-down forces them to block access to it.
In effect, you'd be triggering the same sequence that led to youtube-dl being blocked on GitHub for a while. Surely, GitHub = Microsoft didn't build it, but they still had to block access when the RIAA sent a DMCA.
In the youtube-dl case, the DMCA notice was later found to be fraudulent and thus the access was restored. But if the infringing app re-uses images verbatim, that won't happen so it stays offline.
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#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, same here, the only explanation I can think of is that the scammers have someone on the inside approving these fake apps.
The more boring reason: some review employees are bad at their job
Given the up-and-down, seemingly always controversial (and sometimes adversarial nature) of how Apple performs their app reviews and enforces their rules, I think it's 50% on lazy/bad reviewers and 50% poorly-communicated rules and regulations.
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#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
1000-2000 a month is hardly “jet setting” and has nothing to do with instagram. We are talking the difference between living in a shared accommodation and maybe having a small apartment, maybe having a used car, etc. Plenty of students get bankrolled by a combination of scholarships, their parents, and loans, and have for decades. There’s nothing wrong with it (or with going the frugal route either). Edit: To live in…
As the other comment mentioned, 2k/month is a starter salary in the nordics. It is near instagram-lifestyle money in Portugal, Spain and most of the eastern EU for a young single person. A student having their own apartment (and a car??) is already a luxury 99% of the world will never experience.
>2k/month is a starter salary in the nordics.
Definitely not true in Norway, it's closer to twice that.